After dinner the Governo^r and those that were not of the Comitties[70] sate a seconde time, while the said Comitties[71] were employed in the perusall of those twoe bookes. And whereas the Speaker had propounded fower severall objects for the Assembly to confider on: namely, first, the great charter of orders, lawes and priviledges; Secondly, which of the instructions given by the Counsel in England to my lo: la: warre,[72] Captain Argall or Sir George Yeardley, might conveniently putt on the habite of lawes; Thirdly, what lawes might issue out of the private conceipte of any of the Burgesses, or any other of the Colony; and lastly, what petitions were[73] fitt to be sente home for England. It pleased the Governou^r[74] for expedition[75] sake to have the second objecte[76] of the fower to be examined & prepared by himselfe and the Non-Comitties. Wherin after having spente some three howers'[77] conference, the twoe Committies[78] brought in their opinions concerning the twoe former bookes, (the second of which beginneth at these wordes of the Charter: And forasmuche as our intente is to establish one equall and uniforme kinde of government over all Virginia &c.,)[79] w^{ch} the whole Assembly, because it was late, deferred to treatt[80] of till the next morning. [70] Comittees, McDonald. [71] Comittees, McDonald. [72] Lord le Warre, McDonald. [73] we, McDonald. [74] Governor, McDonald. [75] expeditions, McDonald, also Bancroft. [76] obiecte, McDonald. [77] houres, McDonald. [78] two Comittees, McDonald. [79] The McDonald copy includes in () all of this from "the second of which" to "Charter," and another single ) after &c. The De Jarnette copy has one) only after &c. Bancroft includes what is adopted in this text. [80] McDonald has breath. SATTURDAY, July 31.